📚 I'll be at Readercon July 9–12 in Burlington, MA. July 9 is my birthday so I'm showing up ready. The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays comes with me. Come find me. readercon.org #Readercon #SFF #BlackSpeculativeFiction

📖 The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays is out now. Oona is ready for you. The reviews are in and I'm genuinely moved. Grab it and let me know what you think. 🐾 #AndreaHairston #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SistahScifi

Yay, @andreahairston.bsky.social ! There’s a reading tonight at 7 pm at Broadside Books in #NorthamptonMA. I’ll be there! You, too?

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Pub day! The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays is out today. A dog who knows too much, a murder, and a community that refuses to fall apart. Link in bio. 🤎 #PubDay #SpeculativeFiction #NewRelease

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Oona, a next door neighbor dog, who'd peek from behind a shack, daring me to come get whatever she'd snatched. Oona is inspiration for the detective dog in THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS out May 26! Oona now lives in California. I miss her. But she's still running through my mind.

📚 The Redemption Center Is Closed On Sundays. May 26. Preorder now at Sistah Scifi, Broadside Bookshop, Kindred Stories, Porter Square Books, & Bindery Books🐾 #PreorderNow #AndreaHairston #IndieBookstore

This Purple Way is dwarf irises that have taken over the raggedy non-lawn in the shade of the house and the hemlock tree. The ferns join in the spring bliss I hold this beauty as I hold everything else.

🎙️ Throwback to April 2025. Full house at Fantastic Fiction at KGB in New York City. Got to read alongside Ursula Witcher that night, and the room was everything. Sharing this now because The Redemption Center Is Closed On Sundays drops May 26. Feels right to look back before the next chapter lands.

Another cold rainy gray day! Perfect for reading. Thanks to Broadside Bookshop for book haul! Mojorhythm @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Platform Decay @marthawells.com The Future is Peace by Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon Picked my spirits up off the wet pavement. ! Serious word conjure going on!

WisCon 48 is online May 21-25. 🌌 This year's Guests of Honor are Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed. Last year that was me. Honored to be part of that lineage. 👉🏾 wiscon.net #WisCon48 #FeministSFF

📚 Two weeks to pub day. The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays drops May 26. I'm going on tour this summer. WisCon, ReaderCon, Brooklyn and more. 👉🏾 andreahairston.com/schedule/ #AndreaHairston #BlackSpeculativeFiction #BookTour

Huge thanks to @tattooedbibliophile for the love! 🐾✨ Hoodoo. Physics. Extra-dimensional chaos. Dogs who refuse to stay. Preorder now—@sistahscifi! Published by @tordotcompub Drops May 26!

"Forests are places of magic for the brain." 🌲✨ Publishers Weekly interviewed me about THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS and I got to talk about: Read the full interview at Publishers Weekly. Book drops May 26. 💜 Preorder now—@sistahscifi! Published by @tordotcompub.bsky.social

Every Sunday, Oona the St. Berdoodle slips through dimensions. Some of her friends are turning up dead. 🐾🔮 THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS drops May 26! Hoodoo. Physics. Multiverse chaos. A dog who won't stay. us.macmillan.com/books/9781250807311 Drops May 26. Let's go. 💜

Memorial Day weekend I'll be at WISCON 48 ONLINE! 🎭✨ May 22-25 with GOH @ShiningComic & Premee Mohamed The longest-running feminist SFF convention (since 1977!) goes virtual—join from anywhere Topics: Afrofuturism, multiverse mayhem, hoodoo & physics Register: wiscon.net

Sometimes the answers are in the stories our families won't tell us. 🎭 WILL DO MAGIC FOR SMALL CHANGE follows Cinnamon Jones—theatrically challenged, chasing her grandparents' legacy, drowning in family secrets nobody will explain. Available now. Link in bio. Published by @tordotcompub.bsky.social

Still thinking about Cinnamon Jones every day. 🎭✨ ARCHANGELS OF FUNK (2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist) is about what we do when the Water Wars scramble the world—when nostalgia militias roam and Darknet Lords troll for power. Link in bio. Published by @tordotcompub.bsky.social

The poison desert is eating the world. The wind blows sadness across the Empire. To live and do nothing is death. Master of Poisons published by @TorDotComPub, is available now at bookshop.org/p/books/mast... and your local Library. Tell me what you think when you're done. 💜

Throwback to Wine Down Wednesday with @sistahscifi unpacking WILL DO MAGIC FOR SMALL CHANGE 🍷 Will Do Magic For Small Change published by @TorDotComPub, is available now at @sistahscifi and your local Library.

✨ I’m thrilled to share a special moment from my journey as a writer—introducing and reading from my novel Archangels of Funk, which has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! 🖋️💫 🎥 Dive into the world of Archangels of Funk, published by @TorDotComPub.

This is very important btw because hungry panda is one of the big platforms used by Chinese diaspora and businesses. Because profit margins are so thin for Asian food places , holding delivery apps accountable as often as possible is key

I just don't get people who get information and then don't think to check the source. It's not "consensus" if you have two people but only one has the first hand experience (the other one has only the first's reports)

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

If we didn't shelve them together, who would their fans yell at?

Okay, so: we set $1,000 as our goal because a.) this is our first fundraiser & b.) Kickstarter's all or nothing and c.) we didn't really know what to expect? And we have reached our goal in less than an hour! Thank you all, and now: on to those real goals, those stretch goals, we've got big plans!

These are some of my books—worlds I’ve wandered, voices I’ve listened to, and stories that have insisted on being told. Each one is a conversation with ancestors, with the future, and with anyone willing to step into the magic with me. Which one is your favorite book? Tell me in the comments below.

THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS drops May 26 📚🐾 St. Berdoodle detective solves dimension-hopping murders ✅ Messy queer love story ✅ Alien tricksters causing chaos ✅ My funkiest book yet ✅ #NewRelease #TheRedemptionCenterIsClosedOnSundays #BlackFantasy #tordotcompublishing

Here's Judith Katz's Sinister Wisdom snapshot for April 3: Judith was busy having her mind blown reading Andrea Hairston's forthcoming dog-lead Afro futuristic queer forward scifi mystery thriller, The Redemption Center is Closed on Sunday (Tor Books) out next month.

No Kings Day in Noho. And I just finished AUTOMATIC NOODLE by Annalee Newitz. The Bots running the noodle shop rock! So does the whole novella. A great read for right now—when the big bros are telling us they own tomorrow, nothing to do, but join their horror show. NOT TODAY! What we do matters!

Spring! PW Starred review: "Hairston balances a phantasmagoria of mystical and interdimensional elements with a cast of sharply drawn characters, creating very real-feeling people moving through a delightfully irreal world. The result is a lively and lovely tale of community triumphing over evil."

Make things in the cracks. Gather with others to create. Live now; leave good traces. #zentao

Celebrating Black History Month with new and upcoming releases from Black authors we can’t stop thinking about. 📚✨ Which one’s going on your TBR first? 👀

272. at @capriconsfcon.bsky.social , @andreahairston.bsky.social (left) is interviewed by @tbonejenkins.bsky.social (right)

#boskone Bar conned with @rdavis.bsky.social @ctaylorbutler.bsky.social . And @andreahairston.bsky.social Took picture with my goblin doppelganger @justinkey.bsky.social .

"Joining with others to shape a future is the holiest act." This relentlessly hope-filled and smart conversation brought me joy today. By @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @adapalmer.bsky.social @andreahairston.bsky.social @isisasare.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Despite what some folks tell you, your friend/neighbor doesn't have to LOOK LIKE YOU for you all to show up for each other, for you to feel each other. From Minnesota to Maine, Florida & California, from Greenland, to Gaza, & Kiev, to the Moon, we know this. This tarantula and frog know it too.

I'll be teaching at @lambdaliterary.org 2026 virtual retreat! Applications open on Nov 21, 2025 and close at 11:59 PM ET on Jan 8, 2026. Accepted fellows will no longer have to fundraise for their own tuition–Lambda Literary will provide financial support to those who need it. Spread the word!

Black Speculative Fiction Month. Day 2. Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social #Blackbooksky #booksky #bookrecs

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Northampton” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

This is happening in a few days and it's gonna RAWK

Heather on the list, on the case, doing good in the world!

Mr. President, your party controls the House, the Senate and the White House. Do not shut down the government.

Good one! No need to normalize violence!

The headline should be about Discord’s chat spaces enabling vibrant democratic discourse & undermining the military curfew to enable free speech & participation. Empowerment through egalitarian access.